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Lisa Reisman |
May 7, 2024 12:26 pm
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Well-wishers gathered Sunday for Sister Geneva.
The late Geneva Pollock.
Geneva Pollock showed up.
She showed up for the three generations of students she taught English to at Jackie Robinson Middle School; for the neighbors she met on her Newhallville door-knocking tours; for anyone she heard had lost a loved one and was grieving.
On a brisk, grey morning, 125 people showed up to honor the legacy of Pollock, who died in May 2020 at 76 years old, with a street corner renaming.
The four-foot-nine dynamo who grew up picking cotton in Alabama went on to become “a teacher, a ward co-chair, an usher, a mother and grandmother, a friend, my friend, and so much more,” said Claudine Wilkins-Chambers, as she waited for the street renaming ceremony to begin. “She did so much for so many of us.”
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Lisa Reisman |
Jan 2, 2024 1:37 pm
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Winter Wonderland celebration in full swing.
There were toys, every kind of toy, over 2,000 in all. There were remote-control cars and action figures and explorer kits and puzzles and Legos and Slime and board games and magnetic building blocks and light boxes and glow-in-the-dark basketballs and crystal balls, as well as dolls of every age, model, and style.
Young partygoer amid snowflakes.
Under the brights lights of the Dixwell Community‑Q House gymnasium at the first annual Winter Wonderland Celebration toy giveaway on the Saturday before Christmas, there was music booming and people dancing and kids tearing around the hardwood floors, and snow swirling from a snow machine, and cotton candy, and Santa and Mrs. Claus perched on a sleigh for photo-ops.
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Asher Joseph |
Dec 18, 2023 2:58 pm
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Students sing loud and proud at Elm City Montessori's eighth annual Winter Sing.
Students, families, and teachers bundled together in the subfreezing temperature at Elm City Montessori School (ECMS) to lift their voices in song during the school’s eighth annual Winter Sing — which played out as candles flickered, under the silhouette of West Rock.
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Lisa Reisman |
Nov 15, 2023 7:30 am
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Kwadwo Adae (center) with friends at Grand-Blatchley mural unveiling.
For nine weeks, they painted, enduring darkness of night, thick humidity, and driving rain.
The result: Las Flores de Esperanza, a mural color-saturated with flowers that spans 50 feet of concrete wall at the corner of Blatchley and Grand, and the latest street-beautifying creation of the Ghanaian-American visual artist and muralist Kwadwo Adae.
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Mia Cortés Castro |
Jul 25, 2023 12:56 pm
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Shoot-off between the high school girls' and boys' teams on Monday.
After 10 rounds of hoops shoot-offs against the Lady Heat, New Haven Heat basketball players Amir Durant and Romel Holmes-Gordon took to the sidelines to reflect on the “big family” that their team has become.
